Rich Dad CASHFLOW Board Game, Educational Business & Finance Literacy Game

Trying to empower my son with a gift I was never given (and had to learn the hard way) ~ financial literacy 🤌🏼✨. One of the tools I discovered is this awesome board game. Highly recommend it to any board game loving families. Says for ages 14+, but my kiddo is 9 and reallllly into it, asks to play it every chance he gets. Great intro to stocks, real estate investing, gold, mutual funds, CDs, small businesses, good & bad debt, taxes, spending / budgeting, and bookkeeping (I swear I have no affiliation whatsoever with this game or its makers... just a genuine fan)! At the beginning of the game you randomly draw a profession card that lays out your salary and base cash flow (includes car payment, primary home mortgage, student loans, credit card payment, etc...) Everything else is from opportunities and decisions made during game play. It may sound "dry"... but it's seriously fun, well designed, and real life educational. A+++

Let me start by saying I rarely leave reviews, nevertheless a first review but this game is so so so unbelievable. Used with the cashflow mobile app, this game is life changing. I've read several of his books, yet, learning through concept vs innate strategy is a different ball game. Having opened the box after a family dinner ( bought it for myself and my brother ) it was so well designed and fun, everyone decided to play. Interesting to see how the game reflects reality in someways. Habits and purchasing tendencies ( and dare I say money fears ) after a few rounds became clear in the choices of each player. I found it fascinating to watch one person go from gambler to emotionally stuck due to frivolous purchases and start to make riskier emotionally driven moves as he fell behind. Behavior changes reflected his bank account, which was a total shock to all. 2 of us are big fans of law of attraction and abundance excercises. He's never been a believer, but the numbers and body language was clearly in need of help, there was no denying it. So we ran an experiment. 5 rounds we cheered him until he laughed and THEN made the choice to roll. The results. The more he had fun, the less emotional value he gave to money, the more his brain could make choices from a place of "it's coming now," vs " I don't have". Eventually hitting it big on a stock sale, he actually danced. After that sale, it was like a business mogul was unleashed. Moves became smarter and mistakes learned. Family members who we thought would win didn't ( total shock as they are great in business in real life ) and those whom we thought would lose, won. It made us all realize that our financial intelligence (and emotional attachments to money) needed a tune up. So much so we've decided that game nights are in order and will be buying the 202 version after mastering this one. The product itself is top notch quality and came in 2 days even though we selected free ground shipping. In conjunction with the app, its a much more favorable experience than doing all the math by hand. Allowing us to focus on strategy first. I'm a designer and attention to user interface, legibility, easy learning curve are important. The quality and organization of the game is very good. The box itself is not as big as I thought, but after unfolding, the game goard extends quite large. Can't compare to the classic as I've never seen one in person. As a first time user, the layout was simple, great color printing, durable paper stock and the dice & mice materials are of solid quality. The guidebook is fairy easy to use and navigate. There were a few questions that were not in the game rules and in a way had to create our own interpretation or fall into the answers during play. Such as how do you sell gold? Does one have to put back cards after property purchase or keep them like monopoly? These are more during the learning curve phase. The first time, it took us about 4+ hours to play with 4 people. Turns, learning rules and making decisions do take time. It was so much fun, can't wait to get more family members involved. Everyone is reconsidering their finances and some have already looked into more business opportunities and debt consolidation to get out of the rate race. Needless to say thank you for this game. I can only hope 202 carries these same standards and results. ( and app, love the app hope 202 gets developed soon ) If you want to learn to change financial habits and/or pin point where growth should happen in your life, get this game, now.

I liked the game. I got it to play with my nephews who are 11 and 8, who love Monopoly. I did have to help them a bit but they were able to follow along once they caught on. A few times it got emotional for them but overall they enjoyed it and we finished the game after 3 hours. It was really funny watching them run into the other room and tell their mom "ah man, I got another kid!" or "I just earned $10,000!!" lol. I liked how the 8 year old, who was a lowly mechanic in the game, complained that his 11 year old brother was a lawyer that earned 3x more every payday—only to be the one to win anyways lol. I'd say negatives, besides cost, are that there should be dividers to help organize the money when putting it away. Also, it would be better if the fast track followed the same pattern as the rat race. It starts you off earning 100x the cash flow you had in the rat race which doesn't make any sense. That makes that part unrealistic unless you were starting the fast track like 20 years later. I did try playing by myself with 100x the cash flow and it will still work but takes quite a bit longer. But overall it's a fun game, it gets you thinking and using your math skills. They have wanted to schedule a time to play again and I'm looking forward to it as well.

This is a really fun game. I think it tries to teach people how to change their mindset and although saving is important, investing in the market or properties is more important. It does teach you how to make your money grow for you. And also helps you take a look at your current life and what things you could do differently. Basically it teaches finances and a fun and friendly way. It's easy to set up. It does take a little bit to get to know the rules. You can play it for a long time.

My 10 year old asks to play every day since we got the game! The first time, we played without an app. It did take over 2 hours. Since then, we downloaded the app and the game goes much faster. My husband and I both enjoy the game too. Our 14 year old doesn't love it yet, because her 10 year old sister keeps beating her.

Played it with my wife and adult children and everyone loved it. Our first game took about 4 hours because we had to learn how to play, but nearing the end of the game we got much faster at the rounds and didn't always wait for the last player to finish all calculations before continuing on. I think 3 hours is probably about right for a game, 2 if your players are experienced and don't get stuck in the rat race like we did for a long time. While I don't agree with all of the money concepts that seem to be taught in the game, it does make you start thinking about money management in a different way. I hesitated to spend this much money on a board game, but really it's worth every penny. My son-in-law repeatedly stated how interesting it was and you could see the gears turning in his head thinking about his own real-life finances. My criticisms would stem from the fact that buying small houses appeared to be the worst way to work up to big deals. Investing in stocks was the only real way to make enough cash to do a big deal. Cashing out of a 2br 1ba home was something that we didn't even get a card to do until half the players were already out of the rat race - meaning the rest of us who'd gone that route were stuck for a long time without enough cash to do a big deal. None of us traded in gold coins, but that looks like something we might try next game now that we have a feel for the value. Don't expect this game to teach you detailed steps of "getting out of the rat race," but it will definitely teach you how to view your money and think twice about buying a new TV or jet ski. :-)

This board game is actually addictive once you learn to play. I found that the most important part of this game to me was "getting out of the rat race." Now, I've taken these same principles and concepts and begun applying them to my real-life finances. It has caused me to look at our spending habits and find ways to fight to get out of the rat race of life. It's a game that makes you want to play and "do things differently the next time," and the best part is that the concepts learned in the game are applicable to personal life.

Move Over MONOPOLY!!! I played my first game last night and I have to say, I was really impressed with this. I'm using it to teach my wife about the importance of investing, money management, etc. I thought the game went really well and was really helpful. A couple suggestions for future iterations: 1) Add more "Doodad" spaces since this is what most people are (Currently) wasting their money on. This will do two things; first, make people realize how much they're wasting on junk they don't need, and second, diminish the number of deal opportunities making them HUNGRY for investment opportunities to get out of the buy-new-thing-have-no-cash cycle, which is the purpose of the game. 2) I'm not so certain about the reality of the cashflow opportunities from Multi-Level Marketing programs as depicted in the game. In the game, you invest $500 and then every turn thereafter roll to see if you get $500 back from your MLM. In reality, MLM's are usually invest $3,000 and get $20 back/mo. if you are lucky. (I don't do MLM's, but I know people who have tried several). I think the depiction in the game is over optimistic and likely to lead people inadvertently to scam MLM's. 3) I might make Easy Street, so that it's all Big Deal spaces instead. I never even made it halfway around the board before I had made the +$50K required to "Win". Or, make the new win condition +$250K or something? The only downside to the game is that the instructions are not very clear. Someone coming to finance -- not to mention financial statements -- for the first time will likely be confused. In particular the switch from the front side of the financial statement to the Easy Street side was confusing (Hey! What about my 2 houses and 3 condos?!)

Item arrived on time (actually before time) Item is as described by the seller- new and sealed and what I wanted. Would recommend

We are still having so much fun and learning!😊

Ideal for young minds

Yes!! My son and his family absolutely love this game! My granddaughter is 11 years old. It was a gift.. they played it twice over the weekend. I have the game too , and I think it’s a great financial teaching tool.

The game is pretty pricey. However the little bits of investing knowledge that you pick up feel worth it.